when this proposal primary opponent, mda, said they speak for the neighborhood. i assure they don't. >> i am sorry, do you wish submit your name for the record. >> david garner. this proposal does not speak for me or dolores united. improvements like the proposed pedestrian plaza and 14-foot bulb outs make our neighborhood more livable. shorting the distance at crosswalks make our neighborhood more livable. street scapes make our neighborhood more livable. and finally creating gathering places for us and the neighbors make our neighborhoods more livable. and also they are invited to join dolores united. you are welcome. i and the members of dolores united fully support this. thank you. >> any additional public comment? okay, seeing none. public comment is closed. commissioner sugaya. >> thank you, i have a few questions. i don't know if this is directed to staff or the project sponsor. the project sponsor's estimate of cost is $510,000. and as i understand what we would be approving in terms of the agreement. that number would be used in the agreement specificall

mda is looking to go forward from that successful test to an interceptor test in a you couple of months. the schedule is not yet set. we'll try to do it in this calendar year. then from that we'll make changes to those that are currently in place and then the new ground base interceptors would also be ce-2's. we have confidence we'll be able to go forward on a reasonable time frame. if i could take this opportunity to say whether the earlier decision to put a pause missile field one was a mistake. at the time on the intelligence we had it was a good bet. we saved resources at the time that we'll now have to spend. at the time the threat was uncertain which we didn't know we would see today what we are now. it was the whole concept of eing prepared to go from 30 to 44 interceptors based on the threat was uncertain and owing we may need to go to 44. that's what we're doing today. >> [inaudible] are there other countries in he area like india [inaudible] >> let me say that first we've the d to korea and japanese and they understand we are going forward. and the japanese agreed to go forwar